Microsoft Course 20532

Exam 70-532: This course is intended for students who have experience building ASP.NET and C# applications. Students will also have experience with the Microsoft Azure platform and a basic understanding of the services offered.

This course offers students the opportunity to take an existing ASP.NET MVC application and expand its functionality as part of moving it to Azure. This course focuses on the considerations necessary when building a highly available solution in the cloud. This course also prepares the students for the 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions certification exam.

Audience profile

The candidates targeted by this training have basic experience in implementing and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions. Candidates are also proficient with the development tools, techniques, and approaches used to build application solutions.

Prerequisites

In addition to their professional experience, students must have experience working with the Azure platform. They will also have a general understanding of C# concepts for the lab scenario. Candidates experience can include:

Compare the services available in the Azure platform.

Configure and deploy web applications.

Create Azure WebSites using the gallery.

Deploying and monitoring Azure WebSites.

Create and configure Azure Virtual Machines.

Describe the relationship between Cloud Services and Virtual Machines.

Course Outline

Module 1: Overview of the Microsoft Azure Platform

Microsoft Azure provides a collection of services that you can use as building blocks for your cloud applications.

Azure Services

Azure Portals

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe some of the common Azure services.

Describe the differences between the Microsoft Azure Portal and the Classic Portal.

Module 2: Building Application Infrastructure in Azure

Although many Microsoft Azure services use virtual machines, sometimes your application might have a unique need where it requires a virtual machine that is completely unmanaged. Azure provides networking, backup, and virtualization services as part of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering.

Constructing Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual Machine Workloads

Migrating Azure Virtual Machine Instances

Highly Available Azure Virtual Machines

Virtual Machine Configuration Management

Customizing Azure Virtual Machine Networking

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the Virtual Machines service in Azure.

Deploy a Linux or Microsoft workload to a virtual machine.

Import virtual hard disks to Azure.

Monitor virtual machine endpoints.

Module 3: Hosting Web Applications on the Azure Platform

This module provides an overview of the Azure Web Apps service.

Azure Web Apps

Hosting Web Applications in Azure

Configuring an Azure Web App

Publishing an Azure Web App

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Create a Web App instance.

Publish a simple ASP.NET web application to Web Apps.

Monitor a Web App instance.

Module 4: Storing SQL Data in Azure

Dynamic web applications must store the data that is being managed and manipulated by end users. ASP.NET technologies such as ADO.NET and Entity Framework provide a way for accessing data in SQL Server. In the cloud, the Microsoft Azure platform provides a database as a service offering that allows developers to use SQL in the same way as they would in an on-premises location.

Storing SQL Data in Azure

Managing SQL Databases in Azure

Azure SQL Database Tools

Securing and Recovering an Azure SQL Database Instance

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the difference between Azure SQL Database editions.

Explain some of the advantages and disadvantages of hosting databases in Azure SQL Database.

Explain some of the advantages and disadvantages of hosting databases in a SQL Server installation on a virtual machine in Azure.

Describe the tools that you can use to manage Azure SQL Database.

Implement a high-availability solution with Azure SQL Database.

Module 5: Designing Cloud Applications for Resiliency

As a developer, you should keep in mind certain considerations while designing applications for the cloud. Although there are many platform improvements available in the ASP.NET ecosystem, you need to rethink the way you design your applications, and the patterns that are used, with respect to the scalability and reliability metrics present for the cloud applications.

Application Design Practices for Highly Available Applications

Application Analytics

Building High Performance Applications by Using ASP.NET

Common Cloud Application Patterns

Caching Application Data

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the Valet Key, Retry and Transient Fault Handling Patterns

Use Load Balancing in a geographically redundant application

Create modular applications with partitioned workloads

Build High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications

Module 6: Storing Tabular Data in Azure

Dynamic web applications will invariably need to store the data that is being managed and manipulated by users. ASP.NET has always relied on technologies like ADO.NET and Entity Framework to access data from Microsoft SQL Server. For the cloud, the Microsoft Azure platform provides a SQL as a Service that allows developers to use SQL data and queries in the same manner as they would use in an on-premises implementation.

Azure Storage Overview

Azure Storage Tables Overview

Table Entity Transactions

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the difference between Azure SQL Database editions.

Explain some of the advantages and disadvantages of hosting databases in SQL Database.

Explain some of the advantages and disadvantages of hosting databases in a SQL Server installation on an Azure virtual machine.

Describe the tools that you can use to manage SQL databases in Azure.

Describe the Visual Studio 2015 features that you can use to manage SQL databases in Azure.

Describe the options for migrating data from an on-premises environment to the cloud.

Describe the strategies for using Entity Framework with SQL databases in Azure.

Module 7: Storing and Consuming Files from Azure Storage

When you want to scale to different cloud instances, storing files to a local disk becomes a difficult process to maintain and eventually an unreliable method of storage. Azure provides a Blob storage mechanism that not only offers high performance but also supports integration to Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) for low latency downloads.

Storage Blobs

Controlling Access to Storage Blobs and Containers

Configuring Azure Storage Accounts

Azure Files

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the Blob service in Microsoft Azure Storage.

Identify the software development kit (SDK) libraries, namespaces, and classes that are available for blobs.

Module 8: Designing a Communication Strategy by Using Queues and Service Bus

With web applications presenting content and worker roles processing the logic, there needs to be a mechanism that facilitates the communication between these different entities. Microsoft Azure provides two queuing mechanisms that you can use for this purpose.

Azure Storage Queues

Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus Queues

Azure Service Bus Relay

Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe Storage Queues service.

Describe Service Bus.

Describe Service Bus Queues service.

Describe Service Bus Relay.

Describe Notification Hubs service.

Module 9: Automating Integration with Azure Resources

Although you can manage most of the Azure services by using both of the Azure portals or Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, you can use scripting to completely automate the management of the same resources. This module will look at automating the lifecycle of the services by using client libraries, Windows PowerShell, REST, and the Resource Manager.

Azure SDK Client Libraries

Scripting Azure Service Management by Using Windows PowerShell

Azure REST Interface

Azure Resource Manager

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the Azure software development kits (SDKs) and client libraries.

Use Windows PowerShell to automate Azure service management.

Describe the Service Management API and the steps to authenticate to the API.

Use the Resource Manager to create resource groups and templates.

Module 10: Securing Azure Web Applications

Just like on-premises applications, applications in the cloud need streamlined security mechanisms that are flexible. Azure Active Directory is an identity provider that can provide identity and access functionality for your custom applications or SaaS applications.

Azure Active Directory

Azure AD Directories

Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the Azure AD service.

Explain the features that are available for the directories in Azure AD.

Microsoft Course 20533

Exam 70-533: This course is intended for IT professionals who are familiar with managing on-premises IT deployments that include AD DS, virtualization technologies, and applications. The students typically work for organizations that are planning to locate some or all of their infrastructure services on Azure. This course also is intended for IT professionals who want to take the Microsoft Certification exam, 70-533, Implementing Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

Audience profile

This course is intended for IT professionals who have some knowledge of cloud technologies and want to learn more about Azure.

IT professionals who want to deploy, configure, and administer services and virtual machines (VMs) in Azure.

IT professional who use Microsoft System Center to manage and orchestrate server infrastructure.

Windows Server administrators who are looking to evaluate and migrate on-premises Active Directory roles and services to the cloud.

IT professionals who want to use Windows Azure to host websites and mobile app backend services.

IT professionals who are experienced in other non-Microsoft cloud technologies, meet the course prerequisites, and want to cross-train on Azure.

IT professionals who want to take the Microsoft Certification exam 70-533, Implementing Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Azure

This module introduces cloud solutions in general and then focuses on the services that Azure offers. The module goes on to describe the portals that you can use to manage Azure subscriptions and services before introducing Windows PowerShell as a scripting solution for managing Azure. Finally, the module provides explanations and guidance for the use of Azure Resource Manager and Azure management services.

Cloud technology overview

Overview of Azure

Managing Azure with the Azure portal

Managing Azure with Windows PowerShell

Overview of Azure Resource Manager

Azure management services

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Identify suitable apps for the cloud.

Identify services and capabilities that Microsoft Azure provides.

Use Azure portals to manage Azure services and subscriptions.

Use Windows PowerShell to manage Azure services and subscriptions.

Use Azure Resource Manager to manage Azure resources.

Use Azure Resource Manager to manage Azure resources.

Module 2: Implementing and managing Azure networking

This module explains how virtual networking provides the glue that brings together VMs, web apps, and storage to enable you to publish a service onto the Internet.

Overview of Azure networking

Implementing and managing Azure virtual networks

Configuring Azure virtual networks

Configuring Azure virtual network connectivity

Overview of Azure networking in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) version 1 (v1)

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Plan virtual networks in Azure.

Implement and manage virtual networks.

Configure intersite connectivity with virtual networks in Azure.

Configure networking components.

Plan virtual networks in IaaS v1.

Module 3: Implementing virtual machines

This module explains how to implement virtual machines.

Overview of IaaS v2 virtual machines

Planning for Azure virtual machines

Deploying Azure IaaS v2 virtual machines

Authoring Azure Resource Manager templates

Overview of IaaS v1 virtual machines

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Explain IaaS v2 VMs.

Plan for Azure Virtual Machines.

Deploy IaaS v2 VMs.

Author Azure Resource Manager templates.

Explain IaaS v1 virtual machines.

Module 4: Managing virtual machines

This module explains how to manage virtual machines.

Configuring virtual machines

Configuring virtual machine disks

Managing and monitoring Azure virtual machines

Managing IaaS v1 virtual machines

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Configure virtual machines.

Configure virtual machine disks.

Manage and monitor virtual machines

Module 5: Implementing Azure App services

This module explains how to implement Azure Web App services.

Introduction to App Service

Planning app deployment in App Service

Implementing and maintaining web apps

Configuring web apps

Monitoring web apps and WebJobs

Implementing mobile apps

Traffic Manager

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Explain the different types of apps that you can create by using the Microsoft Azure App Service.

Select an App Service plan and deployment method for apps in Microsoft Azure.